Topic: Weighing in scrap metal?! (Read 12193 times)

marky · « **on:** January 02, 2009, 19:55:50 »

I've never taken any scrap to be weighed in before, but after a few renovations in the house I have a pile of metal and I'm sure its worth something. There's an old immersion cylinder, quite a bit of copper pipe, and a fair amount of electric cable. I was told a while ago that it's worth burning the rubber/plastic off of the cable, is this right and does anyone know how much scrap copper is fetching these days?

waveydavey · « **Reply #1 on:** January 02, 2009, 19:57:59 »

Next to nothing, the price has nosedived recently; if you can the best bet is hold on for a few months

Tommo · « **Reply #2 on:** January 02, 2009, 20:06:22 »

Still a fair bit for copper and the likes.

marky · « **Reply #3 on:** January 02, 2009, 20:15:44 »

I've also got a mangled up Disco back bumper, radiator, front pipe with cat and a couple of batteries I was going to take at the same, are they worth anything or would I be wasting my time?

Mud-muncher1 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 02, 2009, 21:05:55 »

DON'T burn the cable is always better to strip it as it's worth more clean, but i'd agree with waveydavey, keep hold of it for a while

Jav

Lumbering Jack · « **Reply #5 on:** January 02, 2009, 21:07:18 »

You'll get something for all of it but nothing like what it was last summer. Definitely burn off or strip the cable one way or another as you'll get much more for it.

POTASH · « **Reply #6 on:** January 02, 2009, 21:11:19 »

i can get good money for emersion cylinders at my scrapyard

Boggert · « **Reply #7 on:** January 02, 2009, 21:18:39 »

In the summer copper was Â£3k a tonne...

Not sure now, do not burn the outer off.

digger · « **Reply #8 on:** January 02, 2009, 21:42:38 »

copper was Â£1500 a ton before christmas at bacons glazewings is closer for you but he is a robing cu*t and light iron was Â£25 a ton

robert francis · « **Reply #9 on:** January 02, 2009, 21:45:46 »

i live in s.wales prices aint as good here as some other places,

what i wiegh in old price now

copper pipe and cylinders Â£2.70 Â£1.50
car batteries 0.19 0.6p
copper brass rads Â£1.40 0.65p all these are per kilo
striped wire Â£3.40 Â£1.75
cable with cover 0.95p 0.35p
brass Â£1.70 0.85p

if its just house hold thin wire its not worth stripping it as the time it takes and the wieght you lose from the cover you better leave it on and if anyone catches you burning the wire you most probly get in trouble, coz the smell, smoke and polution
theres not signs of it going back up at the moment,
this is what pays for all mods on my truck and insurance, save touching her money in the bank, lol
hope this helps

robert francis · « **Reply #10 on:** January 02, 2009, 21:51:28 »

i forgot light iron is Â£60 tonne and dirty ali was 0.7p

william127 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 02, 2009, 22:01:09 »

paid for my holiday to scotland with light iron@ Â£140 a tonne last summer, apparently its down to Â£10 a tonne now :doh: also got Â£50 for 80kgs of lead in september

robert francis · « **Reply #12 on:** January 02, 2009, 22:09:20 »

wales aint bad then, as i phoned up today and i got Â£60 a tonne

winchman · « **Reply #13 on:** January 02, 2009, 22:27:37 »

I would wait untill at least the summer, it costs nothing to keep it and it will go back up

Disco Matt · « **Reply #14 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:40:29 »

Look on the bright side, the drop in prices should mean fewer light fingered :-# pinching stuff to weigh in! :lol:

robert francis · « **Reply #15 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:56:04 »

very true matt, but for the honest 1s it mean when you do get somthing we dont get as much for it, so it be harder for me to get my bits for my truck

Range Rover Blues · « **Reply #16 on:** January 03, 2009, 00:56:55 »

It always peaks in summer and nosedives over the summer holidays, scrappies seem to stop taking it when they are on holiday, it happens every year seemingly.

That and the world market for steel is on it's back at hte moment, apparently Chian have been turning it away from their ports because they can't sell the containers full of cheapo exports anymore.

Sharpshooter · « **Reply #17 on:** January 03, 2009, 11:16:29 »

I work in a Defuling power station. Before christmas i was removing copper bussbars that went from the alternators to the transformers. I mean big alternators too. 120 meggerwatt. The bars were 15" wide and 12' long and 3/4" thick . All about the best copper you could find.

Shame its not mine though. There are about 150 of them. And thats just for starters. The alternators weigh about 80 tons, and there are four of them. :(

V8MoneyPit · « **Reply #18 on:** January 03, 2009, 13:49:39 »

Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 03, 2009, 00:56:55

That and the world market for steel is on it's back at hte moment, apparently Chian have been turning it away from their ports because they can't sell the containers full of cheapo exports anymore.

Absolutely true. Some of the paper and card recyclers are no longer taking in stock since China is no longer buying anywhere near as much. They have halved their output during the second half of last year and they no longer need to make as many boxes.

It's one of the factors in the price of fuel dropping. China isn't taking oil from outside it's borders as much.

Boggert · « **Reply #19 on:** January 03, 2009, 14:23:49 »

You can tell it dropped in value so much as last year we would get at least 5 scrappy wagons collecting a day.

Now we are lucky or unlucky depending on which way you look at it to see 1 a month now

Gav_T · « **Reply #20 on:** January 03, 2009, 19:03:36 »

I weighed in my disco body the other day. It made me .................. Â£8.40!!!!

And that was for the ali panels which totaled 28kg!

He wouldnt buy the steel off me so i just gave it him because i needed it gone and nowhere else was open.

In the summer i Â£1/kg for batteries and 95p/kg for unstripped wire, i cant remember the rest!

Gavin.

carracarra13 · « **Reply #21 on:** January 03, 2009, 19:34:34 »

I took 5 ali rims (no tyres just b4 christmas) Â£15 each but now Â£15 the lot

robert francis · « **Reply #22 on:** January 04, 2009, 09:57:18 »

gav t, Â£1 a kilo for batteries thats about Â£12 / Â£14 for a dead landy battery, the most i every got was 0.19p a kilo and thought that was excellent,

im saving my scrap up now to start the qt radius fund, haha

then im going for the big 1s the front and rear cam lock diffs or arb, i really hope the price goes back up soon, lol

carracarra13 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 04, 2009, 10:08:00 »

you wont be able to get in your garden m8 at that rate lol Id just get a scoda atleast you got the skip lol

robert francis · « **Reply #24 on:** January 04, 2009, 10:12:54 »

i do weigh ins when needed but i take all copper, brass, wire, ali etc out and weigh that in not so often just to let it build up. and put it in a pot, the arms shouldnt be to long just hope price goes up soon,

The Smiths · « **Reply #25 on:** January 04, 2009, 10:21:12 »

I had a Jeep Cherokee shell took away 23rd Dec (promised it would go for Christmas) - got Â£30.

Probably weighed 1/1.1 tonnes - so looks like I got a fair price - weighed one in earlier in the year and got Â£82 - didn't have the time to load on trailer and take myself for Â£50 - so thought it was OK.

The Smiths · « **Reply #26 on:** January 04, 2009, 10:30:35 »

About 3 or 4 years ago prices on aluminium were rising that much that a mess up in design actually created a profit.

We were buying aluminium extrusions from China.

Designs were made, 20 tonnes ordered, by the time we got it delivered sales had changed minds and the sections were no longer needed.

These sections were scrapped and the price of the scrap was about Â£50 a tonne more than we paid - the price had risen that much in 6 months :shock:

robert francis · « **Reply #27 on:** January 04, 2009, 10:47:07 »

that worked out well in the end. lol, normally those sort of order go really bad your normally stuck with it

marky · « **Reply #28 on:** January 04, 2009, 11:18:13 »

Thanks for the helpful comments people.

Quote from: muddy henry on January 03, 2009, 10:59:00

Marky DO NOT GO TO GLAZEWINGS they will not give you the correct money for it i know for a fact as i use to work for them and was told of all the cons they do take it to bacons

Quote from: bigscott on January 02, 2009, 21:42:38

copper was Â£1500 a ton before christmas at bacons glazewings is closer for you but he is a robing cu*t

I would have thought it would have been the other way round, but there you go! I think I'll hold onto it for a while and take it to Bacons

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